Tonight I came across this post from Christopher Bennage, my company just purchased those controls after reviewing them for awhile we all agreed that they were easier to use and better than Infragistics for what we were trying to accomplish, writing a complete AJAX solution.

Need to say, this is the first time in my blog that I talk about anything the company I worked for. Waht are they doing or purchasing. I have never posted about it. Main reason; Robert Scoble warned us all "amateurs" how dangerous it is.

However I do belive that Telerik controls are far superior than any of their competitors at this moment, even as they inherit a few problems from Atlas their AJAX is easy to use. Then again I have not spent as much time with those controls as Christopher. Also I trust a company that maintains a blog with any changes, little tricks and tips, etc ... There is lots of information in their website and the demos as well, they may need. Also they host the forums where you can ask questions, post code and read other peoples comments and questions, this by itself gives an advantage to them, as a developer I did scan those forums before I downloaded those controls. 

Telerik is a Web 2.0 company, they have use the best communication for the developer, so even than sometimes the documentation is not as good as I would like it to be, the whole company inspires confidence. I'll let you know with time as I use the controls how it goes of couse, if I had $1000 spare I would purchase my own license.

Feel gilty that after so many years using FreeTextBox I'm moving away to Telerik, sorry John Dyer still believe your FreeTextBox is the best control, but I am still waiting for the newer version! FreeTextBox 4 is still just an screenshot and a promise. 

Looks good in any case :

This picture is from John Dyers website, you can find it here.

When that version comes out, as I have been doing for the past 3 years, I'll download, play with it and find a way to use it somewhere.

Cheers

Al

PS. I promise the next post will be just code and more code. I just didn't have much code to post lately and too many news in technology. Next week I'll post about the finished Load Balancing, and the Tunneling that I now use remotting to be able to control the client machine.